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RICHARD SCHMID (1934- ) was born in Chicago. His earliest artistic influence came from his maternal grandfather, Julian Oates, an architectural sculptor. Richard's initial studies in landscape painting, figure drawing and anatomy began at the age of twelve and continued into classical techniques at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. He acknowledges a debt to the great masters, among them the Spanish portraitists Goya and Velasquez and the Impressionists Cassatt and Manet. Schmid's work has been widely acclaimed. He has won the Allied Artists of America Gold Medal, the American Watercolor Society Gold Medal and the top award in the National Parks Academy. He has had no less than 41 one-man shows and his work has been exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Smithsonian, the Gilcrease Institute and the Beijing Exhibition Center in China. In 2005, Schmid was presented with the Gold Medal award from the Portrait Society of America during their annual portrait conference held in Washington DC. He is also the recipient of an honorary doctorate degree from the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in Old Lyme CT.